war in the persian gulf? let’s hope not

Not long ago, Iran defeated the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who at the time was being supported and armed by the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom, China, and the United States. But now, the Islamic Republic maintains close ties with both Russia and China, and its..

farsnews

For the past two years, the US government has used its economic, financial and military power through aggressive approach to disrupt all international structures and regulations, Kyrgyz of Bishkek, addressing meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization - Eurasian alliance that includes China,..

what is bernie sanders worried about?

And in the US, we have Senator Bernie Sanders, currently the front-runner to become Democrat Party's in the next election, donning the mantle of peacemaker, in effect offering as human shield for Islamic Republic... Vietnam war started in 1950 as Communist guerrillas, backed by Maoist..

james m. dorsey

Officially, both Saudi Arabia and the US, which withdrew last year from the 2015 international accord that curbs the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and imposed... . . . ... China’s Threat to Worldwide Human Rights . China is leading a charge to undermine accepted concepts..

iran: 40 years after the revolution • the berkeley blog

Since 1979, the country has found itself in an ongoing cycle of infighting and factionalism within Iran’s domestic politics, the hostage crisis (1980–1981), a bloody war with Iraq (1980–1988), the rise of the reformist movement (1990s), and the signing of a nuclear deal with the major countries in the..

canada's treacherous "faustian bargain"

This is what a 'free press' is presumably all about, after all; not as in countries with totalitarian regimes, such as the once-Czarist Russia-turned communist Soviet Union-turned Putinist Russia, or Maoist China, or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the Islamic Republic of Iran, or..

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